I’m linking up with Amanda @ Fabric Engineer for a Link party to share your mistake.
My mistake, was that when I started quilting I thought I could immediatly design quilts. Go big or go home. While I feel my projects were great, they were too complicated for my experience.
So ONE of my mistake that I’m sharing with you is my Dresden. I tried to make the “radiant” backing, it’s just something I wanted to do. But I was sloppy. I just thought the angles would come together…well they didn’t;
I took this pic laying down, that is all the excess fabric I am going to have to deal with.
This was my goal;
Urgh! What a mess. Then, after I designed it (and made the top), I realized I needed it quilted in a special way…which means no bringing it to the LQS to be machine quilted. So, seeing as this will be a throw blanket for my bed, I’m going to suck it up and machine quilt it myself. and maybe just fold over the excess fabric, sew it down, and call it a day. It will be gentle reminder to think before I cut.
And to top it all off, I used fabric from my Mango Tango quilt, and left myself short! I thought I could find it again, with no luck so far.
Sarah's Stash 
Oh, that stinks. I have tried to get some wrinkles out before too and just never seems to work. But…I really hope that you don’t just throw this on a UFO pile because I really, really like it.